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Speaker 2: We thought they were the coolest thing to ever come

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Speaker 3: Morning on our pop Crawl. Good morning, Jodi.

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Speaker 4: Good morning over there. Wa Yes, yes.

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Speaker 3: Because you're in Melbourne Mills days. Yes, well, let's talk

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Speaker 3: about the jam Tarts.

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Speaker 2: Jody Bell, Lucy Lehman and the Gear Girls, Annagair and

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Speaker 3: How did you all meet?

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Speaker 4: Cool? Well, that's we all met at school because our

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that's a handy way to do it.

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Speaker 4: Gosh, listening to that song, gosh, we had high voices.

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Speaker 4: By things have changed now it's all dropped up, not down.

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Speaker 5: We're going to get you recreate that vocal effort. They're

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Speaker 2: I had that sound because it was you know it

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Speaker 4: You know, that was the big band. You know, the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know you see like the Ocean's he's like

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Speaker 4: Yes, he joined our band. I'll just remind you that.

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Speaker 1: He did on many awards every years because he's a.

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Speaker 2: Start j That was eighty six, but you guys were

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah. We had to have Kate, which was

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Speaker 4: Well, it was better catching the bus time because invariably

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Speaker 5: You know how the straightcuttel what we were in a

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Speaker 4: We do that, like he'd come back to person with

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Speaker 3: You went to Edinburgh as well, the Fringe Festival.

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Speaker 2: Is that where Sophie met her future hubby Ben Elton.

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Speaker 4: No, we met Ben on tour okay, which were around

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Speaker 5: Yeah, gotcha, Hey, Jody, My managers can be ruthless, but

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Speaker 4: Probably it was so fun she was, She was absolutely legendary.

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Speaker 2: I remember you are still well and truly doing music.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it was so great. We had such a good

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, i've just heard that the polices have said

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Speaker 5: Yeah, might be able to arrange that you never know.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, we know the value of a buck.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been working since a young age.

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Speaker 3: You get it. I think you answered my question before

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Speaker 4: In this it's Samblaman, who's Lucy's brother. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 4: And you know we're all close. It's like family. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, it is life the jam Tarts.

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Speaker 2: Gosh, it has been lovely to reminisce with you this

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Speaker 2: the eighties. Joanie, thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's so nice to have me. And you didn't

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Speaker 4: I didn't answer that question of which was the best

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Speaker 3: I see, you see now Sunday sessions.

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Speaker 2: You try to explain a Sunday session to the young

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Speaker 1: It was like, we're got to work tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to do something school night school.

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Speaker 4: Yea, thank you, okay, bye for having me. Bye.